According to this report 23,000 people die each year as a result of CRE (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) infections.
Healthy people usually do not get CRE infections – they usually happen to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings. Patients whose care requires devices like ventilators (breathing machines), urinary (bladder) catheters, or intravenous (vein) catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk for CRE infections.
MORE INFO: http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/cre/